Facebook new 55,000-square-metre facility in Denmark would help the tech company handle "the richer content" of live videos and 360-degree photos.

Social media giant Facebook announced on Thursday that it would build a new data centre in Odense, Denmark's third largest city in Funen island.

The new centre, which is Facebook's third outside the United States, would be one of the most advanced and energy-efficient data centres in the world and would be powered completely by clean and renewable energy, Xinhua news agency quoted Facebook's Director of data Niall McEntegart as saying at a press conference in Odense.

McEntegart told local news site Fyens.dk that the building of the new centre would cost "hundreds of millions of dollars".